Domestic fight ends with estranged couple dead

And a nine year old daughter left behind. A stranger tied into all of this who tried to help and a community shaken where all of this happened.

Domestic fight ends with estranged couple dead

By MARK I. JOHNSON, HEATHER SCOFIELD and KARI COBHAM
Staff Writers

PALM COAST— A domestic disturbance escalated into gunfire as a man chased his wife through a Palm Coast neighborhood this morning, eventually shooting and killing her before he died of a gunshot wound himself.

Officials are calling it “an apparent murder-suicide,” but they acknowledge the fatal shot that killed the husband may have come from a neighbor’s gun. The wife sought shelter at a nearby home and the homeowner returned fire at the husband.

Flagler County sheriff’s investigators are trying to untangle the incident, which began just after 7:00 a.m. in front of a house on Reynolds Place, with the first 9-1-1 calls coming in to Sheriff’s dispatchers at approximately 7:15 a.m.

“We’re still trying to put all the pieces together,” said Sheriff’s Maj. David O’Brien.

So far, investigators said they believe the couple was estranged, living in separate houses
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Domestic fight ends with estranged couple dead